{"id":17668,"date":"2013-02-25T13:38:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T18:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=17668"},"modified":"2013-02-26T12:00:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T17:00:02","slug":"can-we-elect-more-senators-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=17668","title":{"rendered":"Can We Elect More Senators Like This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/article\/20130220\/NEWS010603\/302200087\/Rand-Paul-returns-600-000-US-from-his-Senate-office-budget\">Courier-Journal<\/a> in <b>Louisville Kentucky<\/b> reported on Thursday that Senator <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Rand Paul\" href=\"http:\/\/paul.senate.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Rand Paul<\/a> is returning $600,000 to the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Department of the Treasury\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8983333333,-77.0341666667&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8983333333,-77.0341666667 (United%20States%20Department%20of%20the%20Treasury)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">U.S. Treasury<\/a>. He saved the money on <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Senate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Senate<\/a> office <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Operating expense\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operating_expense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">operating expenses<\/a> during the past year.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The $600,000, which amounts to about 17 percent of Paul\u2019s $3.5 million office budget, was in addition to about $500,000 he saved two years ago, his first year in the Senate, Paul said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>He said the savings were realized by \u201cwatching every purchase,\u201d including keeping close tabs on expenditures for \u201ccomputers, paper, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ink cartridge\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ink_cartridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">ink cartridges<\/a>. Everything we buy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>He said he also keeps close watch on travel expenditures and noted that, although he frequently flies between <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Washington (state)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington_%28state%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Washington<\/a> and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Kentucky\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.5,-85.0&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=37.5,-85.0 (Kentucky)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Kentucky<\/a>, his staff seldom does. He said he also doesn\u2019t pay his staff excessive salaries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article lists a number of Senators in both parties who have returned money to the government. That is a start.<a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=24c25767-0d93-4b89-afbc-91115a2ad669\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Courier-Journal in Louisville Kentucky reported on Thursday that Senator Rand Paul is returning $600,000 to the U.S. Treasury. He saved the money on Senate office operating expenses during the past year. The article reports: The $600,000, which amounts to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=17668\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5048,5050,5049,2244,711,3730,386,615],"class_list":["post-17668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-courier-journal","tag-ink-cartridge","tag-kentucky","tag-rand-paul","tag-senate","tag-united-states-department-of-the-treasury","tag-united-states-senate","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17668"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17686,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17668\/revisions\/17686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}